John Guidetti has put himself out there by letting us know he’ll score a hat-trick in next month’s League Cup semi-final. I’m not normally an advocate of showing confidence, if not contempt, for opponents prior to a game, but Guidetti’s comments come against a rich canvas.
The player is in a rut and will be feeling the weight of disappointment with each passing chance. He is a goal-scorer, he’ll score again, but he needs to find the spark to fire-up the second part of his season.
You will remember Kenny Miller ran his guts out in his early months as a Celtic player but it was not until a game against oldco Rangers in September that his landmark first Celtic goal arrived. Kris Commons has been a scoring sensation throughout his time at the club apart from his second season, when he took until April before scoring, a delightful chip over the oldco keeper.
Ahead of both of those games I knew it was all going to come together for Miller and Commons. John Guidetti has set himself a target. He will probably score before that game but he knows how important it is to perform at Hampden. He is good enough to deliver on this one, don’t bet against him.
Contrast John’s comments to those last week from newco defender, Steven Smith, who said, “The fans will probably be dreading [the Celtic game]because in the big games this season, we haven’t done well. Everybody has got their opinions and are entitled to them.
“But with the results we have been having and the way we have been playing, I don’t think we can think about it too much.”
You will be hard pushed to find a clearer example of the language of failure: “dreading”, “haven’t done well” and “the way we’ve been playing”. You normally need to work a bit to find a player’s insecurities. It’s good of John Guidetti to mark his card on what to expect. Give me a confident striker over a scared defender any day.
The Second Annual Celtic Supporter’s Féile is on the weekend of Friday 30 January 30 – Sunday 1 February in Philadelphia. The events include live music each day, the US premier of The Asterisk Years, with a Q&A with Paul Larkin and Graham Wilson of Beyond the Waves podcast, as well as live coverage of our first ever meeting with newco Rangers in the League Cup semi-final.
You can find more information, including how to book, here.
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gearoid1998, geordie munro –
are you suggesting Miss Airdrie is less than fragrant?
Shame on you. She’s a grandmother you know. (thumbsup)
It’s sell sevco night on Sky tonight …….how do you sell a dead duck, Jim….hahahaha
Stairheedrammy
It’s just my opinion bud ;)
Btw , i should be so lucky to persuade anyone to my way of thinking .
That is my point , the dafties going there iintent on causing mayhem / injuries , will use this as propoganda .
I’m more often than not wrong , hopefully so this time .
And , i don’t hate PL , the board or anyone else connected to/with Celtic as for fans going , fairlplay to them .
leftclicktic Thanks for that need to learn how to do that. Thats for you Awe_Naw. H H Hebcelt
Son of Dallas fast tracked to UEFA List…..quel surprise….
geordie munro
15:52 on 12 January, 2015
We beat Barcelona, hamilton beat us so hamilton can beat Barcelona ???? Hahahahahahaha
Philvis
As you are aware, as you cross the border east just past Coatdyke, or as we used to call it in old monkland….the thin dividing line between genius and insanity…the recreational drug of choice in that strange world of lost souls is the clearly and patently effective ugly pill.
Mind you they have got a head start or possibly two on providing it with a fertile ground.
Hail hail
Estadio
Re JG’s comments about scoring 3 against Sevco, I’d have preferred him to aim it at Inter. Having watched Inter beat Genoa over the weekend, I’d hate to think we’re in for a gubbin. More quality needed in all areas!
THE TOP 40 RICHARD MADELEY QUOTES
40.Talking to Ricky Gervais about Chris Rock
“We had him on last week. Complete Prat”
39.When interviewing Keira Knightly
“Can we get some make up please, get Keira looking like a crack whore, she’d make a good crack whore”
38.After a man breaks down crying after meeting the paramedics who saved his life in a motorbike accident
“Stop crying! This is supposed to make you happy! Anyway after the break, the biggest dog in the UK. And he really is big. Don’t miss it”
37.“There’s not many better things than seeing an older woman skipping”
36.To Opera singer Russell Watson and Faye Tozer from Steps
“I always thought both of your music was a bit crap but this is quite good”
35.After being told by Kamikaze survivors that they didn’t want to watch clips of the VE celebrations because they had lost several crew members the day before VE.
“Well we’ve got a clip so we’ll run it anyway”
34..In reply to John Fashanu saying his nightmares were so bad, he often woke up with his bed saturated
”With sweat?”
33.After giving out the phone-in competition number
“A numerically satisfying number there.”
32.After Stephen Hawkings replied ’no’ to his question of whether he believed in a God or not
“ (Distraught) I was hoping for a yes there”
31.To a caller
“I understand you have a little lad of 12. Is it a boy or a girl?”
30.After Ricky Gervais points out the cameraman is doing the ‘wan_er sign’ behind Madeleys back
“He’s been doing it most of the week (sighs). He doesn’t realize that I can see him doing it in the reflection from the other camera’s Auto-cue…I don’t know why he’s still working here, really.”
29.”Women lie about sex. It doesn’t matter how many partners she’s said she’s had before you. She’s lying”
28..Talking to a child who has spinal injuries meaning he had to wear a huge neck and head brace
“Hey you look just like Buzz Lightyear”
27.“The one characteristic I don’t think I have any shreds of is suicidal tendencies”
26.To Jade Goody
“You’re quite sharp. It’s just in the pure sense of the word that you’re ignorant”
25.“Remember when you had thrush Judy? You had a terrible time of it”
24.To someone with an eating disorder
“When you were younger did you have a brother or sister who used to steal food off you, you know like dogs do and that’s why you wolf it down?”
23.To Eddie Grant
“I hope when I’m reincarnated I come back black because you age better”
22.When interviewing Primordial Dwarves
“Do you find that people patronize you? That means that they talk down to you”
21.When Interviewing Frank Sinatra’s daughter
“It’s obvious you loved your father, but do you think you were actually in love with him?”
20.When Interviewing Eddie Jordan
”you’re looking good. You were born in 1948, Judy you were born in 1948…”
19. The first question to man giving his first TV appearance after being wrongly imprisoned for years
“So, did you do it?”
18.To the comedians Punt and Dennis
”You two have been together for 24 years, just like me and Judy! Although me and Judy were only having an affair in the beginning, weren’t we Jude? Is that the same for you two, did you just start off as an affair too?”
17.After Judy misjudged someone’s age
“Ha ha, she failed maths. She did, she did!”
16.When Judy was complaining about her dislike of Squid being prepared
“Your point’s not valid Finnegan”
15..Talking about how he doesn’t like anyone interfering with his cooking
“No I am bad. I’m like Hitler in the kitchen”
14.When interviewing an actor who was currently playing a role as a bi-sexual
“would YOU prefer to have sex with, me or Judy?”
13.After Judy said that she’d like to have become a Dr if she wasn’t a TV presenter
“No, you would have ended up killing everybody”
12.To singer Sophie Ellis Bextor
“Where did you get your face?”
11.“So he suffers for us. He bears our pain in the most public way possible. He serves a timeless human need, one that goes back long before the time of Christ. Perhaps this has always been PAUL GASCOIGNE’S destiny”
10. To a teenager suffering from anorexia
“5 stone! That’s concentration camp thin that is”
9.(To Judy) Do you remember that soup I made last week? Absolutely horrible. Had to throw it in the garden”
8.To one of the Birmingham 6
‘What do you notice most that has changed during your 18 years in jail?
Cars have five gears now, for example.”
7.“I’ve never met a single women who’s happy with the way she looks, except Jordan, although I’ve never met her”
6.To the Actor Mark Williams
”You’ve lost some weight, haven’t you? Why’s that? You’re not ill are you?”
5.To Charlotte Church
”OK, imagine I’m someone from a record company with a ponytail… (Begins shouting)…. I OWN you, Church!”
4.When interviewing someone who had an obsessive crush on a celebrity
“So, Jane, when did you first realise that you were quite clearly mad?”
3.”When me and Judy were trying to conceive. I used to douse my balls in icy water before intercourse”
2. Conversation with Skins star Nicholas Hoult
Richard: “How old are you now? 18?”
Nicholas: “No I’m 17″
Richard: “Really, I thought you were 18″
Nicholas: “Nope”
Richard: “But you’re nearly 18 though, aren’t you?”
Nicholas: “Actually I’ve just turned 17″
Richard: “Well I suppose I’ll have to take your word for it”
1.When talking to Bill Clinton about his affair with Monica Lewinsky
“I know what it’s like to be wronged by the press. I was once accused of shoplifting. Unlike you though, I knew I was innocent”.
Written By Jim Haginson
Follow him on twitter at @panchero
http://happyfingersproductions.com/guest-posts/defending-the-indefensible/
(thumbsup)
Marspapa
This may be the final nail in your sarcophagus….. But I agree with you.
Hail hail
Estadio
If there is violence at the League Cup semi-final, and that is highly predictable, it will not occur because of a Statement in the Sunday Herald, or a nasty letter expressing scepticism re The Big Lie of Continuity in a newspaper, or because Celtic blogs are having fun laughing at them.
There will be violence because violent characters plan to have violence or inadequate characters cannot cope with an adverse result or taunting.
We can understand that there are very many unhappy and violence-minded individuals out there but we cannot condone their violence by saying they have an excuse for it.
The statement, as I understand it, does not seek to persuade Rangers fans of the correctness of our views as that would be a futile tilt at windmills. It does not seek to persuade the media to change their default position as they will not be influenced by one small paid-for “advert” when they have other motivations more rewarding to them. It does not seek to embarrass Celtic FC or plc or other Supporters in speaking for them. It does not seek to promote a boycott or demonstration or riot. It does not seek conflict with Rangers supporters who think differently though many of them will choose to see it as provocative.
It is merely an attempt to state what some Celtic supporters believe, and still believe, in the face of near universal views from the media and official football bodies seeking to state the opposite.
It is a small pebble in a large stream. Most pebbles are just washed away and worn smooth and small over time. Occasionally, a pebble thrown at the right time might lie close enough to a few other chucked pebbles as to form a dam and have an effect on stream and flow.
So, if you are criticising, that is what you are criticising, in my view, an attempt to express an opinion that has some facts and evidence in support of it.
It will not stop criticism coming from a variety of sources, some informed, many not so (like Alfie Noakes who just knows, you know, without having the need to have been informed).
But please, less of the “it will cause violence” accusations! We could stop flying tricolours, singing our songs, and cheering our goals and there would still be violence.
Estadio
I was just here thinking that when I typed it (⊙_⊙)
philvisreturns
Ole Richard…………..Mr Tact
Estadio and Marspapa, we will agree to disagree. Is a newspaper advert more inflammatory than an afternoon of chants about the new club or their first visit to Hampden, or a banner or two pointing out their newness. All of these things have already taken place in games where they were regally rogered and I don’t remember reading of the bloodbath that followed. If the difference is that we are Tims and those acts were carried out by Hearts and Hibs supporters, then should we really be looking for excuses for them?
So SFTB, Will you put your name and location to it? I agree with the content…I don’t agree with the timing or mechanism….but like a letter to most quality newspapers a list of those backing it gives it some more credence and weight than an anonymous generalised miasma.
I’ve agreed to have my name and location on any published list, as has BMCUW.
Anyone else who accepts the courage of their own convictions should also do so.
Hail hail
Estadio
sftb
And if there’s violence on the pitch………..it’ll be ‘the return of the old firm shame game’.
estadio – This is why I wasn’t worried when Chernobyl blew up.
Airdrie makes Prypiat look like St Lucia.
Escape from New York was based on Saturday night in Airdrie. (thumbsup)
They will cause trouble no matter what,it’s what they do.
A couple of huns presenting sky sports at 5, Jim White, and Haily McQueen whos dad Gordon is another hun, and you can bet your bottom that new girl Wilson is her name, she will be another one,talk about nepotisim,its full of it on sky sports,and what is the name of the person who recruits them ,
Stairheed
Believe me it is in no way about giving anyone excuses…it is about taking personal responsibility. If an advert/statement is worthwhile then it is worth being personally attributable.
If their are eejits daft enough to be goaded into violence by ‘names will never hurt me’ then I would want them to be face up to those they deemed responsible and not some innocent bar scarf wearing kid.
That’s my point.
Hail hail
Estadio
Billionaire Scot Set to Buy Rainjurs
Timbhoy2 – Hayley McQueen gets a thumbsup from me.
http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/hayley-mcqueen-arriving-chariots-fire-premiere-held-empire-leicester-square-london-england-picture-henry-34740198.jpg (thumbsup)
Estadio
The wife looks forward to that very day :))
Auld bugger but i still love her.
I was once chased through gardens, hedges and bushes by some lovely young men who told me they were going to stab me in the leg, then the rest of me.
They were armed, but with knives not copies of the Sunday Herald.
There will almost certainly be violence. Sadly many innocent Celtic supporters will be the victims.
An erudite and/or witty ad in a quality Sunday paper will not even be tangential in that process.
HH jamesgang
There won’t be trouble inside Hampden, but there will be lots of trouble outside the stadium and especially in the city centre. The bears are out for blood and they are planning to hunt in packs.
If you are going to the game, don’t display your colours away from the stadium.
Also, they plan to attack Celtic-favoured bars in the city.
I and my sons won’t be leaving Edinburgh.
Tom McL
Big Feartie? (⊙_⊙)
jamesgang
Round and round the garden with the Teddy Bears?
Place empties………..hmmmm
BSR
Something like that!
Found out I could hurdle…
HH jamesgang
Estadio
When you sing a Celtic song, do you announce your name to all nearby Rangers supporters?
When you chant at the match do you have a calling card so that the opposition fans know it was you?
I think anonymity versus self-publication is a large bit of a red herring. It will not be the case that innocent un-named individuals will be left alone until they have head hunted every signatory. They will visit their violence on anyone provocative enough to sport a Celtic scarf or strip or even be caught wearing green.
You have been happy enough to use anonymity, like me, to express various scurrilous opinions and jibes about them without having to “out” yourself. Personally, I think that you and BMCUW made a bad choice in doing so today. I would strongly advise everyone else not to forego their anonymity. Little good can come of it.
Didn’t realise that our Custodians were HATED by fellow Celtic supporters,
what a horrible word to use,
sad,and attention seeking gutter talk,
BSR –
Knew that was coming :-)
Jamesgang
As kids we used to run through back gardens jumping through the hedges
It was murder when some old codger had a fence under the growing hedges. O((
SFTB –
Now you tell me :-)
Evening all.
There are many different opinions and views regarding the cup game against The (not so) Mighty Morphing Rangers.
Some will go to the game, some will boycott. Everyone, of course, is entitled to do as they wish.
I won’t be at the game but I’ll certainly be watching it on TV (probably in the pub). I’ll be watching it alright… and I’ll enjoy it!
I’ll enjoy the tension, but not the fear of violence. I’lthe banter, but not the bile.t not the aggressive arguing. I’ll enjoy
BT
Nae wonder w’ur knees are bu88ered!
HH jamesgang
Anybody else think there was never a serious bid from Robert Sarver?
Jamesgang
If that is the case, then put your name to it.
Sorry lads but if all we want to do is applaud anonymous words then anonymity destroys meaning, impact and objective.
I’ve little time for politicians in general, but I have even less time for the eponymous ‘spokesman’ and if therecwascever one going by the pseudonym Estadio….well I don’t think he would get too many votes from a sentient electorate.
Hail hail
Estadio, I mean ….
Matt Stewart
Gorbals
Estadio
We’ll agree to differ Fhriend.
HH jamesgang